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Arcadia del Sannazaro.

Accession number
PML 1592.1
Creator
Sannazaro, Jacopo, 1458-1530. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxxdvbtc8XB7Dp3MPvGpP
Published
Impresso in Vinegia : Nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Romano, et Andrea socero, nel'anno M.D.XXXIIII [1534].
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Title from title page, leaf 1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf 91v: Impresso in Vinegia nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Romano, et Andrea Socero, nel'anno M.D.XXXIIII.
Signatures: A-L⁸, M⁴.
Printer's device on title page (leaf 1r) and final verso (leaf [92]v).
Reprint of the Aldine 1514 edition, with the same preface by Aldus.
Often bound with Sannazaro, Sonneti e canzoni (July 1534).
Description
91, [1] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Unidentified armorial, silver-tooled (oxidized): curled hat (like a vertical cornucopia) (bottom board); Richard Heber (1773-1833), Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp (front endleaf 1 recto), Bibliotheca Heberiana sale: Sotheby's, part I, 10 April 1834, lot 6065, for £1.16.0 to: Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), C&P note, 1834 (front pastedown) and shelfmark: E3 (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
16th-century Venetian gold-tooled brown morocco over paper boards, by the Cicero Binder (see Hobson, Renaissance Book Collection, App. 7, no. 55). Title gilt-tooled on top board: AR/ CADIA/ ET RIME/ DEL SANN/ AZARO, and unidentified armorial on bottom board.
Classification
Department